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IBM announced significant advances in its path to integrate electrical and optical devices on the same piece of silicon. The new CMOS Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics, which is the result of a decade of development at IBM's global Research laboratories, promises over 10X improvement in integration density than is feasible with current manufacturing techniques. IBM said it anticipates that Silicon Nanophotonics will dramatically increase the... [Continue Reading]

We talked a few weeks back about Cloud Management / tools. On April 12, 2010 SNIA formerly released V1.0 of CDMI (Cloud Data Management Interface) ((Can be found here http://tinyurl.com/2ukfo5t)) Which allows Enterprises to manage (create, change & delete) Meta Data placed into clouds. SNIA recently released a draft for CDMI v1.0.1f http://preview.tinyurl.com/yavxjj2 Looks like the standards are shaping up well for Cloud Management.... [Continue Reading]

Wonder what IOP value you utilized for planning your VDI thin client environment? Was it 4 IOPS,Was it 8 IOPS, Was it 12 IOPS / thin client? How many IOPS are you driving in your environment? Is the VMware standard of 20 IOPS / thin client your norm or the exception?

IBM Systems Director Storage Control a plug-in for IBM Systems Director was announced on Nov 7th, 2010. IBM Systems Director Storage Control has been designed & optimized for mid-range storage offerings to increase IT productivity, typically these tool sets are lacking in mid-range space. The Director plug-in provides support for DS3/4/5/6/8K disk subsystems, as well as Storage virtualization engines Storwize V7000, SVC, to... [Continue Reading]

As the IT industry continues to push commoditization across the enterprise, its next target appears to be the Ethernet switching realm. How so you ask? Network Convergence and the newest CNA offering from QLogic is the 3GCNA a valiant effort into full commoditization of Ethernet switches. 3GCNA’s provide support for multi-protocol (iSCSI, FCoE) and QLogic’s newest 3GCNA allows VM’s to switch protocols on the fly. Can you leverage this... [Continue Reading]

IBM’s new mid-range Scalable Storage Storwize V7000 was designed from the ground up offering ease of use for product install, Admin & Maintenance. Take notice the product is new, however, the code set it runs on is stable it is based on IBM’s SVC which is > than 6.5 years young. The subsystem also brings enterprise caliber technology into the mid-range market. Such as, Disk Virtualization (based on SVC technology) RAID... [Continue Reading]

Everyone in IT is familiar w/ the 80 / 20 “rule”. For networking it used for be 80% of traffic would remain local and then 20% would / could go offsite. Then the Internet Age came about and flipped that paradigm. The data everywhere revolution is flipping the data storage model from an 80 / 20 rule. Where 80% WAS structured data and 20% was unstructured data. In the past few years, the rule has been creeping toward an equilibrium and... [Continue Reading]